Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry about that whingeing on at the end of the last letter . |
| 2 | More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site . |
| 3 | ‘ We heard the noise of glass falling to the floor and I saw this group of three heading straight for the door . |
| 4 | I am careful to make this only the slightest of tints , then from the top down I was in a tone of cerulean fading out into the orange . |
| 5 | Scunthorpe survived largely because Futcher thought he was offside when he was n't and Deary was when he should n't have been — his 81st-minute goal being disallowed to the despair of the home fans and the delight of those setting off across the black hills . |
| 6 | Have half a dozen of those floating around in the garden . |
| 7 | Chuck Sherman , who had noticed the excited gleam in his young brother 's eyes , grinned and punched him affectionately on the arm as he took the binoculars , but before he could lift them to his eyes a tumult of shouting and screaming broke out suddenly among the throng of Chinese pressing up against the iron grille below them . |
| 8 | Through the glass I could see the long lines of blue moving away down the street and I could still hear the shouts of the corporal . |
| 9 | basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next |
| 10 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
| 11 | Higher pensions were payable to those who remained in work beyond this age ; these rose by annual increments for all retiring up to the age of 65/70 . |
| 12 | It fulfils its more conventional role as a control for the mix of wet ( effected ) signal to dry signal , balancing the level coming through the loop with that going directly through the preamp . |
| 13 | Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985–89 , with some dating back to the late 1970s . |
| 14 | He watched the slim body of Samantha dive into the pool and thought that by the time she came of an age for love he would no doubt be drifting round eternity in the unwelcome company of his wife with all rogering out of the question . |
| 15 | To begin with those relating mainly to the Prague School , there seems , first , to be no objective way of determining what limits can be imposed on the description of the text 's structure . |
| 16 | As rapid economic and social change has worked its way through the countryside , however , the farm worker has found himself increasingly separated from the local village community both socially and — for those living out on the farms — geographically . |
| 17 | The risk was undoubtedly greatest for those living closest to the plant , particularly in the village of Seascale only a mile away . |
| 18 | The alternation of scenes in that play establishes verse as the appropriate medium for the Greek leaders engaged in the vita activa in their council-scene ( I.iii. ) , while for those hanging out in the vita inactiva in Achilles ' tent — Thersites , Ajax , Patroclus , Achilles — all too often the medium is a scabrous unheroic prose . |
| 19 | This is especially true for those growing up at the time , like my own children . |
| 20 | Add to this the fact that everything here can cost considerably less than almost anywhere else , and it becomes hard to see why young people go anywhere other than this sophisticated , cosmopolitan , exciting and dynamic resort , which we think is particularly good for those going abroad for the first time . |
| 21 | The 20 teams were put into four pools , with the top two from each going on to the quarter-finals . |
| 22 | The event lasted all day , with two heats of ten teams , the top three from each going on to the final . |
| 23 | Ahdaf Soueif in this paper felt that men were such a sorry , beleaguered lot anyway that the books ' ’ combative polemic ’ , with French in particular going wildly over the top , was likely to prove counter-productive . |
| 24 | It was not until the Ptolemaic period that its price fell to that obtaining elsewhere in the ancient world . |
| 25 | three properties on that little , on , on that coming out between the butchers and erm , |
| 26 | Chronic degenerative diseases result from a combination of external environmental factors and internal inherited factors , with the proportion due to each varying both with the individual and the disease . |
| 27 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 28 | I like some of the recordings too , because they are absolutely ‘ as done ’ , without any messing about in the studio . |
| 29 | Finding candidates to sit on the panels would not be a problem , not least among those moving out of the auditing profession itself . |
| 30 | They went higher , up the steep winding road , snow banked high on either side of them and no traffic at all coming down from the pass . |